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. >> she is likely to have left from rome. almost 2,000 miles over land. >> for an elderly lady -- helena is in her 70s at this point -- this journey is an enormous undertaking. >> it is so unbelievably far away. in the american context, the new york is rome, jerusalem is something like guam or american samoa. >> but by all accounts, helena is a remarkable woman. >> we know only a couple of things about the empress helena. we know that she was christian. and we know that she was a commoner. >> and yet she gets together with a traveling roman and gives birth to the man who will one day become emperor of rome. >> since its creation in 27 b.c., the roman empire has been ruled by pagans. then in 312 a.d., helena's son, constantine, has a dramatic change of faith. >> the story goes that on the eve of a great battle outside rome, he has a vision. >> he sees a cross of light in the sky. and he hears a voice that tells him by this, you will conquer. he takes it to mean that by the symbol of the cross and by christianity, he's going to

. >> she is likely to have left from rome.jerusalem is almost 2,000 miles over land. >> for an elderly lady in her 70s at this point, this journey is an enormous undertaking. >> it is so unbelievably far away, in the american context, if new york is rome, jerusalem is something like guam or american samoa. >> but by all accounts, helena is a remarkable woman. >> we know only a couple of things about the empress helena. we know that she was christian. and we know that she was a commoner. >> and yet she gets together with a traveling roman and gives birth to the man who will one day become emperor of rome. >> since its creation in 27 b.c., the roman empire has been ruled by pagans. then in 312 a.d., helena's son, constantine, has a dramatic change of faith. >> the story goes that on the eve of a great battle outside rome, he has a vision. >> he sees a cross of light in the sky. and he hears a voice that tells him by this, you will conquer. he takes it to mean that by the symbol of the cross and by christianity, he's going to bec

let's will bring in phil lavelle who is in rome for us. it's quite a strong message that italy doesn't want to be left alone with this. >> reporter: yeah. this wasn't a man who looked angry, and he seemed very calm very collected, and there were two things you took away from it. first of all he was take talking about the need for cooperation. spoke about how italy has had to go it alone. he said we need to talk about this with a great deal of cooperation. we know he has already spoken to francois holland. in the coming hours, he would speak to david cameron of great britain, angela merkel of germany and other people. the other thing i took away from it was the fact that he was saying this isn't just about revoke ewing people from boats. this is about stopping it at source. he said the big thing is the human trafficking. we need to work together as european countries, not just to rescue people but to stop the human trafficking and he points it out that there are 976 smugglers conductor jailed in italy. he said it's not only the problem. it

the item isis is threatening to launch attacks in rome. supporters say the group has its pillars in place. let's get to it. >>> now shepard smith reporting, live from the fox news deck. >>> and first from the fox news deck this wednesday afternoon, good news. very good news in fact. baltimore is calm there's prayer in the streets and there's music in the air. school's about to let out for the first time since the riot. we'll watch that. and as for baseball something kind of awesome is happening. we'll get to that. zero signs of a repeat of what happened this time on monday. far from it. we heard from police. cops are keeping an eye on a small protest when which they say is peaceful. also an eye on the dismissal of schools. they have resources ready just in case. last night, dramatically calmer than we saw on monday as thousands of national guard troops lined the streets. the cops made just three dozen arrests last night, way down from the 200 plus on monday but during the night, police did fire tear gas and pepper spray to scatter proteste

being looked after in rome. they asked not to film their faces. they hope to slip invisibly across the continent. >> wordy want to go? >> sweden. >> the u.k.. >> from here to paris, then england by getting into a car from a car into a ship, and across the water. >> they know the situation in italy is hard. it is an economic crisis. they think they could find a job . they just want to pass through italy and great other countries. germany, sweden, and the u.k. for example. >> the face of europe is changing. too fast for some. the recent surge of migrants arriving and dying in european waters demands action. it is decision time. and also a moment for soul-searching. bbc news, rome. katty: what more are you hearing about this land of going after the traffickers? >> that is what everyone wants to know. it could still change. what you're talking about concrete plans to target people traffickers. people who have been described why the italian interior minister as the most sinister agents in history. the eu will be looking for a military mandate in libya.

in italy here, especially rome here, the job has been limited. there's little job. whereby people are working, if you are lucky you get some job. if you are not lucky you're just praying one day somebody will call you to come and work for them. >> and he has a message for those driven orisk their lives to get to europe. >> it is better for them to stop coming. i would say them the issue stay where they are. >> reporter: the words of a man who's been there. is there now. but words that many will ignore, so desperate are they for that new start. phil lavelle, al jazeera rome. >> the leaders of grease's golden dawn party refused show up at court at a start of a trial. it's been adjourned 60 were arrested in 2013 after the stabbing of a leftist musician. they've been charged by some evidence linking golden dawn to a string of tacks accused of forming a criminal gang. the right wing group says i.t. did nothingit didnothing of the sort. >>> high school student suspected of killing his teacher and injuring other students in barcelona. reportedly armed with a cross bow and

the imperial city of rome, a.d. 200.with a population approaching half a million it was the center of the western world. rome's immense wealth flowed from a vast empire along the mediterranean sea. an amazingariety of goods came to rome by ship from spain, france, asia minor north africa and egypt. transportation expert ross hassig. it was closer is terms of the cost of transportation to get to egypt than it was to get a hundred miles inland in italy. you couldn't bring food from a hundred miles inland to rome because even with carts, even with oxen it simply cost too much. so rome was able to tap into the production of other areas because it was able to use ships where the cost of transportation was extremely low. keach: but roman seagoing merchant ships carrying upwards of a thousand tons were too large to navigate the tiber river, so cargos were unloaded onto smaller vessels downriver at the port city of ostia. ostia was once a bustling commercial city with shops and restaurants... villas and apartment houses for merc

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right now they're gathered in rome being trained to rid people of demonic possession. what's with all the interest in exorcism and could pope francis have something to do with it? >>> undefeated. he's won ten world titles. when they face off in the fight of the century, they'll be going for his biggest payday ever. tonight, he tellsy has a secret. but first, the "nightline 5".." >>> good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm rebecca jarvis. we're about to take you inside the operating room to witness history in the making. a chain of complete strangers making incredible sacrifices to give the gift of life. byron pitts has the story. >> here's the kidney. >> what you are witnessing is months in the making. because this kidney is only one part of a transplant chain that is so far 30 lengths long. >> she's here for a kidney transplant. >> today will require eight surgeons. and a team of transports. >> it's only viable for a very short period of time. >> to five different hospitals in four different states. >> okay kidney good-bye. >> to break the record in the nation's l

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from there joseph was flown to rome where he has been ever since.l jazeera's phil lavelle caught up to him to hear his story. >> reporter: for the migrants crossing the mediterranean sea it is a journey that represents a new life, new start and joseph got that new life five years ago. >> they say yes, ma'am enter italian waters. i was glad. >> reporter: joseph had to get out of ghana made his way to libya where people smugglers put him on a boat for a price. destination, lampedusa. >> the first time i was lucky. the first time they promised me to, they promised me joe you are moving today. i went in and they didn't take me. they said that i'm -- the boat is over. so it's full. so i have ogo. following in two days time. about one or two days time, i heard that the boat had been sank on the sea. all of the people died. >> so you had a narrow escape. >> yes! the people were -- they were about 125 passengers. people all of them died. all of them sink including the boat. >> reporter: but the boat he did board also got into trouble and had to be rescued.

the bishops don't care about that they were addressing only rome. they were looking up to the pope saying i think contraception is horrible. i think it's so horrible that i'm going to intrude into american politics and say that obama care is evil because it takes away the religious freedom of catholics not to have any contraception. they have it. they've exercise their freedom. that's a totally hypocritical argument. i know people who refuse to be ordained saying that if you don't agree with the teaching on contraception i won't ordain you. they didn't get ordained. some people did. the way to succeed in the church was to be a hypocrite. those are things that will work themselves out. what catholics actually believe and do will determine our future. >> so you seem to actually like a lot about pope francis and you also seem to really understand the fermentable forces in front of him and the constraints and you've only been there two years. why are you disappointed? why did you say you are disappointed in him? >> no pope can make up for all the horrib

if you think about the influence of the elite in rome in the senate for example that was significant. the senate can pass laws. they could make decrees. they could manage business. they could manage the budget, but if they want to pass a law they have to go to the people. it is interesting under the empire the idea that the people fundamentally i was optimal for studying terms of legitimacy continues so that the romans thought the people acclaimed each new emperor ended from that public acclamation that they are legitimacy derived and that idea in medieval and modern political science become an important underpinning for popular sovereignty. >> host: who are some of the leaders in the great development of politics? >> guest: for example, everything about athens about athens, the interesting thing is the athenian democracy emerges in stages. one of the most important figures in his prehistory or proto- beginnings as the lawgivers. solon, who was one of the first people who helped him start athens on what would become a democratic cast lived around 594 since the beginning of the sixth c

more of them than in rome. they played key roles for example in the court system sell all the courts were established by its huge popular jerries, as many as 500 people and no professional judges. and 500 in a particular case of people would decide what they thought the law required, and they were responsible for a lawmaking in athens and staffed what we think of as the civil service. a lot of bureaucratic functions establishing the weight send measures those things were staffed by ordinary people reporting into positions bought a lottery. one of the things i argue with sometimes modern political theorists exaggerated that too far so sometimes people save the ran everything by lottery and no division between rich and poor, the board did everything and that is an overstatement, the athenians have certain political roles by law or customer reserve for the rich but the poor don't told the rich accountable, that sort of fundamental ability to control the rich and hold them accountable really accounts for the atheni

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in rome matteo spoke eloquently to his visits to the military cemetery in florence.'m also grateful for my partnership, personally with prime minister renzi. we have worked together on several occasions from rome to our nato g-7, and g-20 summits. i know he is deeply committed to our alliance. i have been deeply impressed with the energy, vision and reforms he is pursuing to unleash the potential of the italian people and the italian economy. his willingness to challenge the status quo and look to the future has made him a leading voice in europe and we're seeing progress being made with respect to italy. so i want to thank you again for the seriousness and sense of purpose that you bring to our work together here today. this morning we focused on our shared security starting in europe. we agreed that the international community needs to continue supporting ukraine with robust assistance as it pursues economic and political reforms. we strongly support the minks agrees and we agree that russia and ukraine must fulfill all of the obligations under these agreements. i

not just in rome. at sicily. oppression. extreme poverty. the reason they make their journey from africa to europe. you can read more at cnn.com. >> turn our attention to yemen. operation decisive storm is giving way to operation renewal of hope. saudi arabia says nearly a month of air strikes to drive out houthi rebels is coming to an end. in its place, renewed focus on diplomacy meant to reap store yemen's president to power. >> thanking the coalition for standing up to the houthi rebels. the president will return to yemen to rebuild the country when the time is right. >> translator: i say with all honesty, we never mentioned the scale of hatred and pursuit of revenge from them. evil took over their mind and conscious which allowed them to bring the country off to the brink. the conspiracy accelerated after all yemenese agreed on the foundation for a new federal yemen. >> let's go back to rome. the prime minister on his feet. addressing parliament. let's listen to what he has to say about the migrant crisis. >> translator: police forces an

phil lavelle, al jazeera, rome. >>> thousands of soldiers in guinea took control of the capitol afteronfrontation with antiprotesters and angry at an election timetable and are calling for it to be scrapped and we report. >> reporter: it's the second time in two weeks the guinea capitol has resembled a battlefield, and rock-throwing protesters were met with tear gas from the police and then there were arrests. hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets. they want a controversial election timetable to be scrapped. >> translator: the moment we enter the house of our leader we were met with large number of police shooting at us and reacted with stones and just now heard gunshots and was hit and responsible for this situation. >> reporter: last month guinea electoral commission said presidential election would take place in october but local elections next year and do not want to keep the local representatives they appointed and rather wants them to be appointed and he narrowly won the vote in 2010 the first time they held free election since gaining independence from fran

but in rome though whole vatican reacted it cannot be true on that scale. but in those people the vatican organs, and no bishop stood up. to realize what he has done we cannot continue like this. but they did got. so i suppose a proportionate response but i don't think he is going to. >> all i am a fan of his. thank you. them wondering if we take that at face value or is that his trickster and if he would end the papacy with is the likely scenario for what happens next? >> he has also said he hasn't got much time left. none of us do at that age. what will happen when he dies? i hope we will not depend on the pope as much because he is telling us not to. to be acting like the people of god as we should have been all along. just as in america once you get the liberation of women the recognition going, it is very hard to stop. one of the briefings of america is where the feminist movement has put people in high office. and barney frank said he never would have believed the recognition of gay marriage would take place with the speed that it has. also the same k

>> ben for us in rome. thanks very much.ng will be unseasonably cold for many people across the eastern united states. derek van dam joins us now with more. >> people getting used to springtime conditions, then they wake up on easter sunday and all of a sudden, it's 20 degrees below what it was this time yesterday. that's what they are feeling, at least along the east coast of the united states especially where you see the shading of purple and pink. washington, d.c. is 20 degrees colder than yesterday. on the flip side, a warming spell across the midwest including chicago, kansas city and the colorado rockies. we have freeze watches and warnings across kentucky and parts of tennessee into northern alabama and georgia. these are the temperatures we are waking up to early sunday morning, flirting with the freezing from knoxville to nashville as well as northward into indianapolis. here is the easter day forecast across the united states. the big apple, 61 degrees, a bit of rain in the forecast. scattered thunderstorms for the

so the state is still very high for alert. >> the latest there from rome and thanks. marking 100 years since the massacre of ancestors in the territory during the first world war, the country president and the first lady laid a wreath in the capitol and joined by world leaders and french and russia psha president and 1 million were killed in the first genocide of the 20th century. turkey disputes the figures and rejects allegations of a planned ethnic cleansing campaign and we have more from armenia's capitol. >> reporter: 104-year-old watches his great, great grandchildren play. he was six when he and his parents left their farm in western armenia his father was warned, their village would be targeted by ottomen soldiers. >> my mother covered her face with soot and dressed as a kurd and a photo of my father and a man with a mustache and asked what naturalionality are you and if he said an armenian he would be killed. >> reporter: walked 300 kilometers to safety and says he will never forget seeing mothers abandon their clirnhildren along the way. >> translator: when

. >> rome sent governors to rule.omans valued that. >> ha has become of herrod. >> at the time tell the -- >> >> i made great effort teaching son scriptures. dreaming he might become land given to us by god. perhaps it is time to return. huh? so this is the new city of the jew jews? why don't they hail they new governor. >> only respect. >> how do we dress when we are taken so see the jewish god. >> no one sees him. they believe he is everywhere. >> everywhere? but cannot be seen? how do they know he exists? >> maybe he doesn't. bless him had, elizabeth. i have heard so much about you. >> i had given up hope that a trader spoke of the joseph of nazareth who had returned from afar. i felt at once it was your joseph. >> he brought us six years before he died and then blessed be god. left you a life that's good. >> is john the priest in the temple. >> my son the baptist is not beloved in the temple nor they of him. john in the wilderness. >> like isaiah. >> talk prophets with jesus and. >> you are blessed with such a chi

so you have been in rome. >> fred: yeah. >> seth: you've been shooting "zoolander 2" in rome. >> fred seth: so exciting. >> fred: yeah. >> seth: you were in iceland working on this ifc show that you and i are doing with bill hader. >> fred: yeah. >> seth: you were filming in iceland. >> fred: that's the last time i saw you was in iceland. >> seth: we saw each other in iceland. we went out. we ate whale. >> fred: yes, we did. >> seth: we ate whale at a restaurant. >> fred: yeah. >> seth: and we were told, and this is very important, that it was the last whale of its kind. [ laughter ] and that made it so delicious. that's not true. they have whales everywhere. they're crazy with whales in iceland. >> fred: it's an infestation. >> seth: it's an infestation, yeah. they have to. you have to. you're constantly just beating them off. it is so great to have you back and you know, that's the thing, you're doing all these amazing things. you were in rome. you were in iceland. you're doing all this work. and i do sometimes worry that when we talk people might think that you're just making this

. >> easter celebrations have begun in rome with the traditional holy thursday match -- mass taking place in st. peter's basilica. >> later, the pontiff washed and kiss the feet of 12 inmates and the baby at the main prison in rome and a pre-easter ritual. the pope said he wanted to be a servant to society's neediest. pope francis has broken with tradition by performing the foot washing ceremony on women and non-catholics. religious violence often dominates headlines these days but in many countries, people of different dates have lived life for centuries. >> although egypt is a predominantly muslim country they existed side by side in egypt for centuries. that's the subject of a new exhibit in berlin. take a look. >> abraham plays a key role in judaism, christianity and islam. an exhibition looks at his legacy in egypt. in the show, 250 objects, documents and film shed light on how jews, christians and muslims have lived side-by-side in egypt for centuries. rather than concentrating on the religious or ideological differences, it shows their daily coexistence. >> they played with muslims

. >> reporting from rome.now coming up on the news hour we're off to the arctic, and we're going to see how an entire way of life is threatened there as the climate changes. talking of climate chile's volcano will erupt after unexpectedly roaring back to live. we have a live report. and why we'll see one of sports biggest-ever fights. we'll have details. : >> monday on "techknow". >> we should not be having earthquakes in texas. >> the true cost of energy hits home. >> my yard is gone. >> are we destroying our way of life? >> contaminated water from the fracking activities come here. >> they stick it into the core of the earth. >> but this cutting-edge technology could be the answer. >> the further of fracking is about the water. >> protecting the planet saving lives. >> how do you convince a big oil company to use this? >> "techknow". monday, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> part of al jazeera america's >> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet a. >> forced people to risk their lives

halls and then mastiff medieval houses. >> we have dug through london, the medieval period the post romerea where the area was covered in marsh. and now down to the roman level where the row than street level was 1900 years ago. >> once the bones and tools and bits of leather and coins are carefully unearthed from the sites they're taken to the museum of london archeological labs where they study and catalog them and learn all sorts of things about history. >> each skeleton goes through the processing protocol. after pressure washing they're put in a drying room for a few days and then cataloged. because the site yielded so many skeletons more than 3,000 there are plenty of samples to figure out how somebody lived and died in 1659. >> to look at how they may have died and look at the pathogen by looking at the teeth of these individuals, we hope to find out more about how infectious diseases evolved. >> jewelry, coins, and thousands of disposal clay pipes all from the dig. visitors are welcomed. a viewing platform is open during lunch hour. >> viewing london and seeing everything around

the plan was to kill, not necessarily the pope but people visiting an unspecified crowded area in rome that they suspect may have been the vatican. >> it clearly comes out that the organization of a terrorist attack it underway. >> italian police say that at least one pakistani suicide bomber arrived in rome and it was called off when they were told they were being investigated. a vatican spokesperson down playing the threat saying the plot was just a hypothesis with no followup saying it is not relevant today and there is no reason for concern an italian officials have issued arrest warrants for nine other men that they say were planning attacks in pakistan. >> thank you. >>> we want to go back now to reporter, chad pradelli he has the latest on the shooting death of a food delivery driver at a takeout restaurant. >> reporter: hey rick, we apologize for the audio apology guise for the audio problems this driver was shot behind us it appears that the vehicle he was driving went into the grassy median and went up the hill and hit the fence. police have identified the delivery driver a 4

the chief prosecutor said the would be suicide bomber arrived in rome in 2010. the target was vatican city, but he never went through with it. they believe he wanted to strike a crowded area. police say two suspects arrested today were former bodyguards for osama bin laden. >>> more than a dozen students in indiana are recovering after the stage they were on collapsed from underneath them. take a look. ♪[ music ] ♪ [ screaming ] >> oh, my gosh. the high school students were singing during the final scene of a musical last night. they run onto the stage and seconds later the cover placed over the orchestra pit just gave way. some of their injuries include broken bones, cuts and possible concussions. >>> a prince george's county jury ruled a woman who stole a home might earn her next one, a jail cell. jurors found kiana johnson guilty of stealing the upper marl low home of a woman who had died three years -- marlboro home of a woman who had died three years ago. johnson filed a fake deed and sold the home for 238 grand. she'll be sentenced in june. >>> the man who

kevin costelloe in rome today. manus: the chinese central bank announced new measures to prop up ailing economy. a cut in the reserve requirements was laid out. david, a 1% cut in the requirement to bolster the banking system. david: good morning. that is what we got over the weekend. it was a one percentage point cut in the ratio that dictates how much the banks have to set aside. what is clear from the move is that it is close to $200 billion freed up. whether or not this changes the policy stance of the central bank -- whether it is tantamount easier or to help plug the massive amount of capital heading out of china -- is a whole other thing. first quarter, we saw a record drop. they simply had to smooth out the effects. this is what we got -- it takes effect today. $194 billion, and that takes the ratio down to 18.5%. it is still fairly high raised on historical standards and global standards. manus: we have lost a david, filling us in on that cut. it is push and pull of the chinese at the moment, isn't it? bet

reporter: italian police saying today that at least one pakistani suicide bomber arrived in rome. but they explained the plot was called off once the militants learned they were being investigated. officials not explaining why it took five years to come forward with this. the vatican spokesperson downplaying the threat reportedly saying the plot was just a hypothesis with no follow-up saying it is not relevant today and there is no reason for concern. italian officials have issued arrest warrants for at least nine other men they say were also plotting attacks in pakistan. they believe several of those suspects are still in italy. marcy gonzalez abc 7 news. jummy: pakistan is reacting as president obama calls for a review into the strikes that killed two hostages. that january attack killed warren weinstein of rockville and an italian citizen giovanni lo porto. pakistani officials offered their condollences and expressed their shock and sorrow. president obama has taken full responsibility for the two aid workers' deaths. community leaders are calling for the shutdown of baltimore

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